cosy mystery – Cannonball Read 17

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Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman

December 30, 2024 by thegirlwhogotoverit Leave a Comment

The TL;DR version of this review is: these are some of the most charming books you will ever pick up. Grab a cuppa and a blanket and give them a go. Set in an assisted living complex in England, the Thursday Murder Club meets weekly to review cold case files, and see if they can solve them. As you would, if you could! Coopers Chase caters to the sprightly as well as those needing full time care, for a price. It’s quite idealised, but our […]

A Whole Cast of Jessica Fletchers

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

October 13, 2022 by xoxoxoe 3 Comments

In The Thursday Murder Club a group of retirees gather weekly to solve puzzles and mysteries – courtesy of a friend who has retired from the police force and who has a pile of unsolved cold cases to amuse and intrigue them. The story is told from more than one viewpoint and the reader is given the choice to read between the lines of some accounts, or to consider the reliability of the narrator. The Club soon evolves from being armchair detectives to the real thing […]

Careful Hannah, Moishe Might be Getting More Interesting than You

March 24, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Question: why end a novel with a sentence that’s supposed to be a cliffhanger when it was obvious three books ago? Seriously. I both don’t understand how that could not have been obvious, and at the same time am very glad to see it. Unfortunately it would be spoilers to say much more, but I now have hope that maybe Hannah will eventually be back to her fun pre-Ross self in whatever the sequel to Raspberry Danish Murder is. Even though I totally saw that […]

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